Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-07
PROHIBITION.
What the Newspapers OF the State Say
Of the Contest in Texas Over
Alcohol and Malt.
Arguments Pro and Arguments Con Which
Are Favored With the Usual Jour
nalistic Condiments.


{ themselves into campaign body and re
solved TO assess each dealer $40 monthly
for the purpose of the campaign. They
also resolved to boycott all business men
and individuals who favor prohibition.
! This latter rs bad move. 1t is reported
! from some towns in Texas that the ants
are Withdrawing support from papers
which advocate prohibition. This is
wrong. The right of opinion should be
respected. 1t can be said OF most Prohi-
tionists that they do not try to boycott
papers, because they oppose prohibition.
IL Cleburne Chronicle.
1t is great outrage on Texas Demo
crazy for Prohibitionists to receive aid
from Kansas or northern people in this
campaign but quite in keeping with the
! immortal principles of Thomas Jefferson
for the saloon men to pour their piteous
Wailings into the ears of northern brewers
and distilleTs and cry for blood money
with which to buy up votes for whisky in
! Texas. Let It be kept in mind that the
! amendment in Texas is being fought by
northern money sent down-not by pa
! triots and phllanthropists but by brewers
| and disullers with the Cold-blooded pur-
| pose of filing their own greedy pockets
with the price OF Sour SORROWS and blood.
! = Waco Advance.
Inc law cannot make man moral, but
| it can make him dresdfully uncomforta-
BILE when he is immoral Mckinney
Mercury.
The Fort Worth GAZETTE is down on
and opposed to outside help for either
side in the pending fight between the
| prOhibitiOniSts and ants. THE GAZETTE
is right. Texas is competent to manage
| her own affairs and her people need no
advice or assistance from parties with
out the state. Her people don't need
| lecturers from Kansas to advise them
how to vote, nor are they to be corrupted
by money furnished by brewers, distil-
lers and wholesale liquor men. This is
family fight and it is best to make
tictly family affair of it. Alvarado
Bulletin.
We call attention to the article in this
issue from the Journal of United Labor,
the organ Of the Knights of Labor. 1t
it is healthy sign when the strong arms of
tue working millions of our country are
barred to the work of roofing out the sa-
looms from the land. The recent report
of the Senate committee on labor and
capital shows that more than 5000, 900, 900
of the working mems wages goes apnu-
ally in the United States into the pockets
of the saloon owners. 1t is no wonder
| that the great order of the Knights of
Labor are rising up in their might and
bidding these miserable dens wherein
they are entyapped to poverty and ruin,
to pack up and tramp. And tramp they
must when the hard-fiSted workers of the
soil and the shop bid them to go. The
fiat has gone forth. The Iaboring men
are speaking. The saloon is doomed.
The 18th of August is coming, and SO we
believe is the tramp, tramp, tramp of the
outgoing whisky legion Georgetown
Sun.
The Prohibitionists have criticised
severely the resolution adopted by the
anti-convention last Saturday, and are
still criticising it, because it tends to
array the Democratic party against the
amendment. The Observer has been of
the opinion from the start that the ants
would make Democracy the battle cry of
the campaign. 1t will be q lively time
when all the Prohibitionlsts are read out
Of the Democratic camp. If perChance
the amendment carries, who will do the
reading, and from what prayer book will
the reading be done? Messrs. Reagan
and Coke each hold the book; which one
is the Democratic oracle p Corsicana
Observer.
There is considera BILE anxiety to know
what the Republicans of Texas will do,
as party, in reference to the prohibition
question. SO far as the Republicans of
Travis county are concerned, we can say
that the large majority of the leaders of
the party are opposed to any action in
the, matter. They claim tina. this is
Democratic fight. 1t was forced on the
people by the Democratic party, snd while
Republicans will vote, pro or con, as
they wish, the party should take no side
IN the matter. This is the sentiment, as
far as can be ascertained, of leading Re
publiCans throughout the state. There
is no doubt that the great maj ority Of the
leaders and the great mass of the party
are opposed to prohibition and will either
vote against it or not vote st all. PrOhi-
bitiOn in Texas is Democratic measure,
and if it carries that party will be re-
spOnsible for it, and deserve all the praise
or CensUre incident to it. 1t is safe to
say now that the Republican party as 8
party will take no hand in the fight.
II Austin Dispatch.
The Monitor says: eff Intoxicating
liquors were necessary articles Of food or
drink, of course it could not be prohibit
ed. Wine has been used from time imme-
mortal by the human family on the table
as a drink. So is beer now used by the beer
drinking nations, of course neither is es-
sentisl as drink, but neither is coffee or
tea, nor are many other articles OF food
and drink. We never read work on
hygiene that did not condemn tea, coffee,
wine and stimulants of all kinds as act
ually injurious to the human system, as
well Gs many kinds of meats and vegeta
| bles. Then on the above theory, the
state has q right to restrain the people IN
the use of all these or any other article
that is injurious to the health of
the people. In fact the principle
involved in prnhihifion laws I0uO